ساقی نامہ
اسی کے بیاباں، اسی کے ببولاسی کے ہیں کانٹے، اسی کے ہیں پھول
English translation
Its the wilderness, its are the trees, its are the roses, its are the thorns.
Translated by M. Hadi Husain
About this couplet
This is couplet 53 of 99 in “ساقی نامہ” (The Cupbearer's Epistle) in the section Poems, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bal-e-Jibril (بالِ جبریل), published in 1935.
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